I would like to know what "rounded streets" means in the following sentences: I had known him almost all my life, Beniek. He lived around the corner from us, in our neighbourhood in Wrocław, composed of rounded streets and three-storey apartment buildings that from the air formed a giant eagle, ...

I would like to know what "for each flat" means in the following sentences: I had known him almost all my life, Beniek. He lived around the corner from us, in our neighbourhood in Wrocław, composed of rounded streets and three-storey apartment buildings that from the air formed a giant eagle, th...

I would like to know what "courtyards" means in the following sentences: I had known him almost all my life, Beniek. He lived around the corner from us, in our neighbourhood in Wrocław, composed of rounded streets and three-storey apartment buildings that from the air formed a giant eagle, the s...

I would like to know what "the continent" means in the following sentences: I had known him almost all my life, Beniek. He lived around the corner from us, in our neighbourhood in Wrocław, composed of rounded streets and three-storey apartment buildings that from the air formed a giant eagle, th...

I would like to know what "Beniek was part of that band of kids, one of the bolder ones." means in the following sentences: It was on the wide pavements, lined with trees and benches, that all the children of the neighbourhood played together. We would play catch and skip ropes with the girls, a...

I would like to know what "a strong neck with a place made out for his Adam’s apple" means in the following sentences: This is where I saw Beniek again. I was surprised that he was there, because I had never seen him at church. He had changed. The skinny child I remembered was turning into a man...

I would like to know what "wade through its lunar landscape" means in the following sentences: In the afternoons we were free. Beniek and I and some other boys would go to the beach and swim in the cold and turbulent Baltic. Afterwards, he and I would dry off and leave the others. We’d climb the...

I would like to know what "real food" means in the following sentences: The next morning we stripped the sheets off our beds and packed our things. The boys were excited, talking about the disco, about the prettiest girls, about home and real food. ‘I can’t wait for a four-egg omelette,’ said on...

I would like to know what "It was hard to move in." means in the following sentences: Instead, the day of the Communion arrived. I could hardly sleep the night before, knowing that I would see him again. In the morning, I got up and washed my face with cold water. It was a sunny day in that one ...

I would like to know what "you can’t possibly have gone through life as carelessly as you made out" means in the following sentences: I stood in the silent stairwell and felt terror travel from my navel, tying my throat, pinching my eyes. Tears started to slide down my cheeks like melted butter....

The opening stanza of Maya Angelou's poem "Alone" goes like this: Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone I came up with one thing And I don't believe I'm wrong That nobody, But nobody Can make it out here alone. I'm a bit con...

Suppose a question that is an identification request gets answered, and the OP then confirms that it is not the title they were looking for. (case in point: https://literature.stackexchange.com/a/16686/5526) Should such answers be deleted since they are confirmed to be inaccurate, or leave them b...

I would like to know what "who spoke and lived in denial, destined" means in the following sentences: The bus was waiting for more people to arrive. I sat by the window, the orange wool curtains drawn to block out the sun, rereading Quo Vadis. I cared less about the religious part than about the...

I would like to know what "the expanse between departure and arrival when you’re seemingly nowhere, defined by another kind of time" means in the following sentences: The bus was almost full now, and the driver climbed in, cigarette glued to his lips, and off we went. We vibrated with the rhythm...

I would like to know what "the dark-blonde fringe that framed her unruly eyes" means in the following sentences: I turned back to Karolina. She was smoking, her wide lips painted coral-red and leaving a mark on the mouth of the cigarette. I can’t remember ever having seen her without that lipsti...

I would like to know what "I had lived them" means in the following sentences: After this, Karolina came back from the ladies’ and we left. I was determined to take nothing from this place, not one memory, not one conclusion for myself. But like stones thrown into the sky with all one’s might, p...

I would like to know what "a prophecy I was unable to read" means in the following sentences: When Belka had finished, we grabbed our bags from the bus and were assigned to the different wooden huts scattered around the camp grounds. I was in one with three other guys, Wojtek, Darek and Filip. T...

For the university I need to analyze bad book translations. The genre has to be thriller and either from english to german or vice versa. I searched for it but couldn't really find bad translations. Are there any really bad thriller book translations i could analyze?

I read a post-apocalyptic novel that switched points of view between a boy from an underground colony and a girl who lived on the surface. The colony had survived underground for a long time, and I think they were trying to find a way to the surface. The girl lived alone but used to live with her...

I'm having difficulty formulating a problem regarding my thesis. I'm planing to read two books by the same author, they're basically the modern retellings of two stories of Greek mythology, and so I can't formulate a problem which could be relevant to today's reader. What would you suggest? What ...